For a quarter century, the U.S. Election Assistance Commission has been Washington's idea of a fix. Created in the panic after the 2000 recount, sold as the bipartisan referee that would finally make American elections clean and modern, it settled instead into the fate of nearly every commission that came before it: gridlocked, underfunded, and famous mostly for doing very little. This week President Trump did what no president had the nerve to do. He cleared the deck.

Every campaign eventually tells you who it thinks its people are. This week, thanks to a recording obtained by the Daily Caller, Texas got a good look at who Democrat Senate nominee James Talarico believes will carry him to Washington. The answer, straight from his own strategists, is drag show crowds, World Cup fans rooting for Mexico, and voters previously scrubbed from the rolls.

Ask any American to board a plane, buy a firearm, or pick up a prescription, and they will show a photo ID without a second thought. Ask them to prove they are a citizen before helping choose the people who tax their paychecks, police their borders, and send their sons to war, and suddenly the ruling class calls it an outrage. That double standard is exactly what Senator Rand Paul is working to end, and his approach deserves the full backing of every American who still believes a citizen's vote should not be canceled out by fraud.

The insurgent Senate campaign that the progressive left held up as its future is now teetering on the edge of collapse, and the spectacle says everything about a Democratic Party that never knows where its own red lines are until the polls force the issue.

The battle for Texas's U.S. Senate seat is drawing national attention after the Cook Political Report moved the race toward the Democratic column, a shift that signals forecasters now consider the reliably red state genuinely competitive heading into November.

If you want a clear picture of just how far the Democratic Party has drifted from the American mainstream, look no further than the name Vice President J.D. Vance expects to carry their banner in 2028: Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez.